Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his comrades pressure him to make a sacrifice for their cause, and his beloved wife experiences personal problems and economic hardships.

An urban guerrilla, wounded after a bank robbery, seeks refuge with his childhood friend—only to dis...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift ...

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. C...
25-year-old Arghavan lives with her parents in Tehran, and intends to marry her fiancé, Hesam. One d...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced...

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...